From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 08:09:12 -0400 Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: <200209051209.g85C9CkY009298@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_99006816P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031227723 30734 127.0.0.1 (5 Sep 2002 12:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([207.96.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mvRB-0007zQ-00 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 14:08:41 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA10375; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA10303 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA10299 for turnbull@tux.org; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu (h80ad22d9.async.vt.edu [128.173.34.217]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA10288 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:09:33 -0400 Original-Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing-police.cc.vt.edu (8.12.6.Beta1/8.12.6.Beta1) with ESMTP id g85C9CkY009298; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:09:12 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4+dev Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Sep 2002 06:46:08 +0200." X-Url: http://black-ice.cc.vt.edu/~valdis/ X-Face-Viewer: See ftp://cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/index.html to decode picture X-Face: 34C9$Ewd2zeX+\!i1BA\j{ex+$/V'JBG#;3_noWWYPa"|,I#`R"{n@w>#:{)FXyiAS7(8t( ^*w5O*!8O9YTe[r{e%7(yVRb|qxsRYw`7J!`AM}m_SHaj}f8eb@d^L>BrX7iO[ List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1414 gmane.emacs.devel:7533 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7533 --==_Exmh_99006816P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 06:46:08 +0200, Eli Zaretskii said: > In my experience, indexing functions, commands, and variables, while > important, is not enough to have a good index. You need a good concept > index where users can look up subjects that are not in the text. As an > example, consider an index item "cut and paste" in the Emacs manual. Amen. 'C-h a' does a fairly good job of describing the trees. It does a truly horrid job of describing the forest. For example, setting zmacs-region to nil will affect the setting of the X selection - and will also affect the behavior of M-u (whether to do a word or region). Lotta forest there. Custom - I've never decided for sure there's any actual trees in there. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech --==_Exmh_99006816P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE9d0locC3lWbTT17ARAsMBAJoC6yx/DcyFszZvPOMouK8GIzvENwCfTReU QctOj8AlCYj85B8gPFQ9oyM= =fqhX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_99006816P--